Rome, Ga., May 23. – Dr. S.P. SMITH died this morning, aged seventy two years. He was born in Giles county, Tennessee, and came to Rome in 1866. He was a man of kind disposition and generous impulse, and was highly esteemed in our community. News of his death was
Death of an Insane Man Chattanooga, July 3 – George SHELTON, well and favorably known in this city, died at Nashville in an insane asylum one day last week, of softening of the brain. Source: Atlanta Constitution, 4 July 1883.
Death of a Pioneer Tennessean Nashville, July 8 – John McGAVOCK died at the residence of his son-in-law, Rev. Dr. John B. McFERRIN, at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, in his eighty-sixth year. Mr. McGAVOCK was the last of his family. His father removed, from Virginia to Tennessee, and settled at
DEATHS — Mr. Thomas BUTLER, son of Rev. J.B. BUTLER, of Brownesville, Tennessee, died at the residence of W.B. LEE, in Covington, last Tuesday night. Source: Atlanta Constitution, 25 April 1872.
We are sorry to report the death of the Rev. M.S. ROYCE, Rector of Trinity Church, Nashville. He died June 9, after a brief and severe attack of cholera. Mr. ROYCE was an excellent man. He was a native of Vermont, and was trained for the ministry by the late
Bereavements upon bereavements in our midst, are calling for frequent obituaries. Young Napoleon B. WILLIAMS, too, is numbered with the dead. He breathed his last, at 10 o’clock, on the night of the 14th of July. He was a native of Tennessee, about nineteen years of age, and was, perhaps,
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6 November 1899.
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